Support cultivated meat study

I was excited to learn Norway’s government is investing €10 million over five years to develop cultivated meat and precision fermentation. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. It’s better for the environment, public health, and livestock.

“We can increase self-sufficiency in food in Norway, and we do not have to kill animals to produce the necessary protein,” said the project’s leader, Sissel Beate Rønning. “In Norway, we have both the expertise and the money needed to develop new technical solutions for food production.”

The United States government should increase its funding for cultivated-meat research. This will help bring the revolutionary protein to market faster, at a price more competitive with slaughtered meat. Legislators who want to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, pandemic risk, and animal suffering should support the goal.

Jon Hochschartner